The tiny Tingid Bug with the big official name of Carvalhotingis visenda is a leaf sucker native to Brazil and Argentina. It was first released into the field in Australia in 2007 to control the invasive weed Cats Claw Creeper. Here at Gympie Landcare we have been mass rearing and releasing Tingids around the local region […]

A leaf tying moth by the name of Hypocosmia pyrochroma, a native of subtropical South America, was released in Australia in 2007 as another biocontrol agent to control the environmental invasive weed Cat’s Claw creeper. In late 2017 Landcare’s Bio Control Manager Yvonne and some volunteers travelled to Boompa, south of Biggenden, to monitor the activities […]